sloop of war

Definitions

WordNet 3.6

nsloop of wara sailing or steam warship having cannons on only one deck

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Sloop of warformerly, a vessel of war rigged either as a ship, brig, or schooner, and mounting from ten to thirty-two guns; now, any war vessel larger than a gunboat, and carrying guns on one deck only.

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Usage

In literature:

We found two or three other frigates lying there, and several sloops-of-war and corvettes and brigs.

"Paddy Finn" by W. H. G. Kingston

But before they met the Governor at his table, a sloop-of-war arrived from the fleet with despatches from the Commander-in-Chief.

"Mr. Midshipman Easy" by Captain Frederick Marryat

It was a sloop of war; the cut of her sails and rigging evidently English.

"Percival Keene" by Frederick Marryat

At length a sloop of war arrived, and they reached England in safety.

"Paul Gerrard" by W.H.G. Kingston

The lovely little sloop-of-war was merely clearing her decks for action.

"We Three" by Gouverneur Morris

Cruising sloops of war, and even Preventive men with spy-glasses, might easily see them from the shore.

"Patsy" by S. R. Crockett

No action of the war was so sanguinary as this short conflict between two sloops-of-war.

"The Naval History of the United States" by Willis J. Abbot

Little Belt, British sloop-of-war, 202.

"Union and Democracy" by Allen Johnson

The eldest, James, who was in the Navy, commanded the Spitfire sloop-of-war.

"Captain Cook" by W.H.G. Kingston

He found out afterwards, however, that his namesake was a sloop-of-war.

"Heads and Tales" by Various

She was a French sloop of war.

"As We Sweep Through The Deep" by Gordon Stables

She proved to be the sloop-of-war "Boxer," and had suffered severely from the broadsides of the "Enterprise.

"The Naval History of the United States" by Willis J. Abbot

But for some reason it was nearly four weeks before a sloop of war was sent around from New York.

"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates" by Howard I. Pyle

But the breeze freshened and the sloop-of-war rapidly overhauled the scudding brigantine.

"Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea" by Charles H. L. Johnston

Our Andrew Doria, of 14 guns, has taken a king's sloop of war, of 12 guns, after a smart engagement.

"The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I" by Various

The story of a remarkable cruise with the Sloop of War "providence" and the Frigate "Alfred.

"The Boy Chums in the Forest" by Wilmer M. Ely

They had not brought a load to side or slid their hatches clear, When they were aware of a sloop-of-war, ghost-white and very near.

"The Seven Seas" by Rudyard Kipling

The two sloops of war were very nearly matched, though the Drake technically rated at twenty guns and the Ranger at eighteen.

"Paul Jones" by Hutchins Hapgood

This boat had been sent to convey Major Andre to the British sloop-of-war Vulture, then lying at anchor off Teller's Point.

"Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853" by Various

They knew her to be a British sloop of war.

"Jack Buntline" by W.H.G. Kingston

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In poetry:

Now the tide was at flood again, and the night was almost done,
When the sloop-of-war came up with her odds of two to one,
And she opened fire; but the Armstrong answered her gun for gun,
And the gay Carnation wilted in half an hour of sun.